From supporting Hitler and Mussolini, to calling non-White British Olympians “plastic Brits”, to likening migrants to rats and other pests, the Daily Mail has a rich and enduring legacy of stoking xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic sentiment. Spouting such overt prejudice over the decades has...
Whilst the controversial Policing, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill was recently delayed by the UK Government following widespread backlash, it continues to cause concern. The newly unveiled Bill presented numerous alarmingly harmful reforms to the Criminal Justice System, which, if...
UK Employers have today been issued guidelines on the Holy Month of Ramadan Ramadan and Muslim-friendly workplaces. The guidance includes: Accommodating flexible working hours/ shift patterns Consider exchanging a lunchbreak for prayer breaks Accommodate work from home requests Consider annual...
An independent review into the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) led by ex-Court of Appeal Judge Sir Peter Gross, that aims to examine the role of judgments handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in domestic courts, as well as the relationship between the Judiciary, the Executive, and...
Switzerland has become the 8th European country to outlaw the wearing of the burqa and niqab in all public spaces after 51% of Swiss citizens voted in favour of the initiative led by the right-wing Egerkingen Committee. Given the fact that less than 40 women wear the full-face veil, the referendum...
Earlier this week, it emerged that during a year 9 religious studies class, the topic of blasphemy was taught at Batley Grammar School in which an Islamophobic caricature of the Prophet Mohammad (SAW) illustrated by French publication, Charlie Hebdo, was displayed to a class of mainly Muslim...
Recent events in Scotland have highlighted the progression in combating racial and religious inequality. However, is Scotland undermining its own progress? Despite such advancements, concerns remain around the growing threat of Islamophobia, and the lack of diversity within Scottish political...
On Monday 22 March 2021, during a year 9 religious studies class, the topic of blasphemy was taught at Batley Grammar School in which an Islamophobic caricature of the Prophet Mohammad (SAW) illustrated by French publication, Charlie Hebdo, was displayed. The caricature entails an extremely...
On Monday 22 March 2021, during a year 9 religious studies class, the topic of blasphemy was taught at Batley Grammar School in which an Islamophobic caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) illustrated by French publication, Charlie Hebdo, was displayed. The caricature entails an extremely...
On Monday 22 March 2021, during a year 9 Religious Studies class, the topic of ‘Blasphemy’ was taught by a teacher at Batley Grammar School. Parents have stated that the RS teacher displayed a caricature of Prophet Mohammad ﷺ illustrated by French publication, Charlie Hebdo. The...
This week saw the second anniversary of the Christchurch attack in which a gunman motivated by far-right and Islamophobic conspiracies massacred 51 Muslim women, men and children across two different mosques amidst Friday prayers. While this tragic incident may now be in the past, the dangerous and...
